Fastener for securing brushes, brooms, hammers, picks, mortise-joints, or the like.



No. 769,338. PATENTED SEPT. 6, 1904.

J. W.'CROOK. FASTENER FOR SECURING BRUSHES, BROOMS, HAMMERS, PICKS,

MORTISE JOINTS, OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION IILEI) APR. 25. 1903.

I UNITED STATES Patented September 6, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WILLIAM CROOK, OF BURNLEY, ENGLAND.

FASTEN ER FOR SECURING BRUSHES, BROOMS, HAMMERS, PICKS, MORTISE-JOINTS, OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,338, dated September 6, 1904.

Application filed April 25, 1903.

T0 rtZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES VVILLIAM CRooK, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 10 Hawk street, Burnley, Lancashire, England, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Fasteners for Securing Brushes, Brooms, Hammers, Picks, Mortise- Joints, or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in fasteners forsecuring the handles of brushes, brooms, or the like to their stocks. I find my invention also applicable for' fastening hammers, picks, axes, and all iron tools of a similar description. My invention may likewisebe used for. securing mallets'and mauls, mortise-joints, and other items of a like nature.

In the application of my invention to brushes, brooms, or the like I take a strip of stout metal about two and a half inches long, more or less, and form at one end one or more prongs, which I bend at right angles. At the other end of the metal strip I punch or bore a small hole. The strip' is also bent bow shape or formed with a longitudinal depression'or indentation. The strip is placed to stand vertically in the usual hole in the stock or head for the reception of the handle, and the prong or prongs at the end of the strip are pressed against the internal side of the.

said hole, so that when the handle is also introduced and forced into the said hole it will drive the prongs home, being assisted in doing so-by the pressure it exerts as it is being driven in against the raised portion of the vertical face of the strip formed by the longitudinal depression on its opposite face. To prevent displacement, a small thumb-screw is now screwed in the hole at the other end of the strip to secure the same firmly to the handle and hold both securely in place, or an ordinary screw or nail may be employed instead.

out of one piece of sheet metal, the securing prongs, pins, or spikes may be made separately and fixed by riveting or likemeans.

In describing the invention in detail ref- Serial No. 154,362- (IIo model.)

longitudinal indentation or depression or fiuting 13 to assist in driving home the prongs, and I employ the screw I for securing the fastener in position. As shown in. Fig. 2, l is the fastener; 2, the prongs at its end, which are bent preferably at right angles. 13 is the saidlongitudinal depression or indentation. The fastener is first placed vertically in the hole of the stock and prongs 2 pressed against the internal side of such hole, and

when handle 5 is driven in it will drive the prongs home and will be assisted. in doing so by the raised portion of'the strip formed by the longitudinal depression on its opposite face. Screw 4 is now inserted in the hole 3 .of fastenerIsee Fig. 1) and screwed tightly iin hdandle 5, when the brush becomes firmly Having'now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to beperformecLI declare that what I claim is 1. A fastener for handles consisting of a strip of suitable material having one end bent at right angles and at its other end provided with an opening, said strip having in one of its faces, an indentation extending in the direction of the length of the strip thereby forming the other face of the strip with a projection extending in the same direction as the indentation.

2. A fastener for brushes consisting of a strip of suitable material having one end provided with a prong and-one of its faces with a projection extending in the direction of the length of the strip.

3. A fastener for brushes consisting of a In testimony whereof I have hereunto set strip of sultable material having one end my hand in presence of two subscribing witprovided with a prong and one of its faces nesses.

with a projection extending in the direction JAMES WILLIAM CROOK.

5 of the length of the strip, said projection ar- Witnesses:

ranged intermediate the longitudinal edges F. RIoHwoRn,

of the strip.

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